Amy Purdy Quotes
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
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I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.
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I've always been a family man and count myself as one of those who are lucky to have the comfort of a family.
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Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.
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Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time.
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I played in a band and attended Grambling University. I think the Mob style funk music I do was patterned after the big college bands. I was also influenced by groundbreaking efforts of Too Short.
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I got this second chance at life, and I live it.
